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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Eddy Cue and Apple Maps team members describe how they are rebuilding the product from the ground up to eventually own the entire map stack, like Google does — The company is rolling out more detailed maps built from its own data for the first time — I'm not sure if you're aware, but the launch of Apple Maps went poorly.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft is working on a pocketable Surface device, codenamed Andromeda, with a wraparound display that bridges the gap of the hinge when fully opened — A new and disruptive dual-screen device to blur the lines between mobile and PC — Microsoft has been working on a new mysterious Surface device for at least two years.
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
NSA says it is deleting all phone records acquired since 2015 under FISA because of a technical glitch that resulted in some unauthorized data collection — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has purged hundreds of millions of records logging phone calls and texts that it had gathered …
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Tweets: @nytpolitics and @alexanderabdo
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Match says Tinder swipes and images sent between its app and servers are now encrypted and swipe data is now the same size, fixing flaws disclosed in January — Your digital dating life is a lot less vulnerable to hackers as a result of security updates from Tinder.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp launches a new group setting that allows only administrators to send messages to a group — WhatsApp today announced a new control for group administrators to limit activity so that they are the only member of the group who can send messages. WhatsApp groups can include up to 256 participants.
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| Lori Grunin / CNET: |
Comcast says national outages on Friday were partially due to fiber cable cuts at internet backbone service providers CenturyLink and Zayo — If you couldn't reach your favorite web sites today at about 12:30 p.m. ET, it wasn't just you. — We first noticed it as Comcast customers took …
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Tweets: @comcastcares, @cnbcnow, @starfire2258, @starfire2258, @karlbode, @sherman4949, @cnbcnow, and @cnbcnow. Thanks:@starfire2258
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
EFF files lawsuit asking court to invalidate FOSTA arguing that it amounts to unconstitutional censorship of the Internet violating First and Fifth Amendments — Sex work law prohibits speech that's protected by First Amendment, lawsuit says. — The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, Engadget, The Outline, BBC, The Verge, and Techdirt
Tweets: @albertwenger, @eff, @staceylovesweed, and @eff
| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Data analytics firm Domo closes up 30% on its first day of trading, raising $193M in its IPO at a $524M post-money valuation; Domo was valued at $2.1B in 2017 — The parade of successful software companies making their way to Wall Street was interrupted on Friday by the arrival of a less familiar beast …
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TechCrunch, GlobeNewswire News Room, Business Insider, Deseret News, Forbes, Business Insider, and CNBC
Tweets: @staska and @mattrosoff
| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
Experts say that due to the vagueness of GDPR, many publishers may be breaking the law by trying to get around the requirement to obtain explicit user consent — The arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation a month ago led to a flurry of activity, clogging email inboxes and flooding people with tracking consent notices.
Tweets: @katebevan
| Daniel Duane / Wired: |
How huge contributions from tech titans, a STEM curriculum, and gadgets everywhere failed to overhaul systemic problems in a San Francisco public middle school — Huge contributions from tech titans, a STEM-packed curriculum, gadgets everywhere: Willie Brown Middle School was supposed to set the bar.
Tweets: @mims, @wired, @benjaminjriley, @benjaminjriley, @jfholmquest, @samfr, @kimmaicutler, @jonsteinberg31, @angela_watson, and @karinchenoweth
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hands-on with the Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition: connection with FreeTime feels disjointed, there's a steep learning curve, regular Echo offers more flexibility — Is the Echo Dot Kids Edition right for you? — @ / 10 hours — Earlier this year, Amazon introduced an Echo Dot for kids …
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Chinese social commerce startup Pinduoduo files for $1B US IPO; Pinduoduo's revenues tripled to $278M in 2017 while losses grew 55% to $79.5M — - Pinduoduo was valued at $15 billion in previous funding round — Tencent-backed Pinduoduo made $79.5 million loss in 2017Sponsor Posts
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